Dr. Oster designs such nice figures 🥺

fusion groupie reporting for duty ! ✊️

Target cell tension regulates macrophage trogocytosis - preLights Feeling tense? Macrophages sense that! Macrophages prefer to "nibble" (trogocytose) soft targets and "engulf" (phagocytose) stiff ones. Stiffness matters for immune responses!

Feeling tense? Macrophages sense that!

Macrophages prefer to "nibble" (trogocytose) soft targets and "engulf" (phagocytose) stiff ones. Stiffness matters for immune responses! #preprint #FletcherLab

Check out the #preLight written by @fadelvalle.bsky.social
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...

This is so well-explained!

PSA to my friends in California near the fires: breathing in wildfire smoke is really bad for you (even if it’s not super thick where you are) but if you have face masks (N95, KN95, etc) those can help a lot

"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing."

This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon':
- None of the ants understand the problem they're solving.
- None of them can see the whole shape.
- A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.

🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

New report highlights the scientific impact of open source software Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing

"Scientists collaborate — funders must, too"

@dartar.bsky.social & @k8hert.bsky.social

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Naive question, but how did you induce blebbing here?

I am in love with this technique! And there is more to come! ✨️

Excited to share our latest paper: SurFlex microscopy! A new technique to measure the flexibility of surface-tethered biomolecules. Congrats to Aymeric, @sid592.bsky.social and @blenackmon.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The hits keep coming!

Logo of OrthoHMM, a novel software for HMM-based inference of orthologous groups of genes

Benchmarking analysis of OrthoHMM and previously published algorithms. OrthoHMM has better precision, recall, and FMI scores. Benchmarking was conducted against the Orthobench dataset of expertly curated orthogroups

NEW preprint!🥳

Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries

Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves the inference of orthogroups (blue in fig)

OrthoHMM may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life

🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6

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Really interesting work regarding influenza virus motility!

A field of glass-coated E. coli cells are able to focus pillars of light when illuminated from the side.

Excited to share this new paper I helped with where we turned E. coli into tiny microlenses! Thread below. @meyerroc.bsky.social
@urochester.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Another excellent study led by Dr. Cornell 😎

Do you find yourself curious about the eating habits of macrophages? Check out our new preprint to discover the biophysical principles that guide macrophage behavior.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Decidedly into microscopes!

this is beautiful!

me at a lake somewhere in N. California, modeling propagation of an electric dipole and laughing maniacally